NBA returns to Seattle Friday for last event at KeyArena

Friday's NBA exhibition game at KeyArena was on the verge of a selling out, just hours after tickets went on sale.

Author:
KING, Chris Daniels

Published:
10:50 PM PDT October 4, 2018

Updated:
11:03 PM PDT October 4, 2018

An NBA exhibition game is the last scheduled event at Seattle's KeyArena before a major overhaul of the facility.

Friday night's game brings the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings to Seattle. Tickets sold quickly when they went online in August. More than 12,000 seats were sold in the first hour. Later that afternoon, the entire building was close to a sellout, according to a Warriors spokesman.

This will be the first NBA action at the facility since the Sonics left Seattle in 2008. It will also mark the return of Kevin Durant, who played for the Sonics in their final season and who now plays for the Warriors.